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Saturday, December 1, 2012

How to illuminate the Caps Lock Light on your Sony VAIO Laptop

The Caps Lock light may no longer illuminate if you use an external wireless mouse. I installed this software which adds an indicator to your system tray. Works great!

and looks like this:

Get it here: http://www.binaryfortress.com/traystatus/

You can also read about it here on CNET:
http://download.cnet.com/TrayStatus/3000-2094_4-75167720.html

I've posted the EULA below just FYI.

TrayStatus End User License Agreement

Please read the terms and conditions of this license agreement carefully before continuing with this installation. Binary Fortress Software's end-user license agreement ("EULA") is a legal agreement between you (either an individual or a single entity) and Binary Fortress Software for the software products identified above which may include associated software components, media, printed materials, and "online" or electronic documentation ("software"). By installing, copying, or otherwise using the software, you agree to be bound by the terms of this EULA. This license agreement represents the entire agreement concerning the program between you and Binary Fortress Software, (referred to as "licenser"), and it supersedes any prior proposal, representation, or understanding between the parties. If you do not agree to the terms of this EULA, do not install or use the software.

The software is protected by copyright laws and international copyright treaties, as well as other intellectual property laws and treaties. The software is licensed, not sold.

1. Grant of License
Binary Fortress Software grants you the right to install and use a copy of the software on one computer running a validly licensed copy of the operating system for which the software was designed. You may also make copies of the software as may be necessary for backup and archival purposes.

2. Description of Other Rights and Limitations
You must not remove or alter any copyright notices on any and all copies of the software. You may not distribute registered copies of the software to third parties. Free versions available for download from Binary Fortress Software's website may be freely distributed with written permission from Binary Fortress Software - this does not include paid for versions. You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the software in whole or in part, except and only to the extent that such activity is expressly permitted by applicable law notwithstanding this limitation. You may not rent, lease, or lend the software. Binary Fortress Software may provide you with support services related to the software. Any supplemental software code provided to you as part of the support services shall be considered part of the software and subject to the terms and conditions of this EULA. You must comply with all applicable laws regarding use of the software.

3. Termination
Without prejudice to any other rights, Binary Fortress Software may terminate this EULA if you fail to comply with the terms and conditions. In such event, you must destroy all copies of the software in your possession.

4. Copyright
All title, including but not limited to copyrights, in and to the software and any copies thereof are owned by Binary Fortress Software. All title and intellectual property rights in and to the content which may be accessed through use of the software is the property of the respective content owner and may be protected by applicable copyright or other intellectual property laws and treaties. This EULA grants you no rights to use such content. All rights not expressly granted are reserved by Binary Fortress Software.

5. No Warranties
Binary Fortress Software expressly disclaims any warranty for the software. The software is provided as-is without any express or implied warranty of any kind, including but not limited to any warranties of merchantability, non-infringement, or fitness of a particular purpose. Binary Fortress Software does not warrant or assume responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of any information, text, graphics, links or other items contained within the software. Binary Fortress Software makes no warranties respecting any harm that may be caused by the transmission of a computer virus or other such computer program. Binary Fortress Software further expressly disclaims any warranty or representation to Authorized Users or to any third party.

6. Limitation of Liability
In no event shall Binary Fortress Software be liable for any damages (including, without limitation, lost profits, business interruption, or lost information) rising out of use of or inability to use the software, even if Binary Fortress Software has been advised of the possibility of such damages. In no event will Binary Fortress Software be liable for loss of data or for indirect, special, incidental, consequential (including lost profit), or other damages based in contract, tort or otherwise. Binary Fortress Software shall have no liability with respect to the content of the software or any part thereof, including but not limited to errors or omissions contained therein, libel, infringements of rights of publicity, privacy, trademark rights, business interruption, personal injury, loss of privacy, moral rights or the disclosure of confidential information.

Binary Fortress Software

Important Note: If you have TrayStatus currently running, please make sure you close it before installing this new version.

Visit www.binaryfortress.com/traystatus/ for updates and support.

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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

How to Disable "VAIO Care" App

UPDATE 6/13/2012--
To get rid of VAIO Care, you must uninstall it. None of the disabling features below work long term.

Use the standard uninstall procedure: Control Panel, Programs, Uninstall Programs, Vaio Care, and then right-click, uninstall.

I found I also had to remove the Vaio Care and Vaio Updater items from the scheduler as well (described below).

UPDATE 11/29/2011--

Readers, see Anonymous's tip (November 29, 2011 12:26 PM) in the comments below (basically, run msconfig -> Services -> uncheck VCService to disable Vaio Care Performance Service and VCService and at startup), and then note the following (Source and thanks to:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/sony/624062-new-sony-vaio-se-bloatware.html):

"...You can uninstall most of the bloatware through Vaio Care, except for Vaio Gate. Vaio Care itself is on the bloaty side, so first I'd use Vaio Care to uninstall any bloatware you can, then disable Vaio Care and Vaio Gate from running at startup.

If you look in Task Scheduler, there are a number of tasks related to these two applications. You can set them to "Disabled" without deleting the tasks, so you can always re-enable the tasks later if you want them for some strange reason.

Also check msconfig for any startup entries related to Vaio (Gate | Care), and disable VCService and Vaio Care Performance Service. If you later want to run Vaio Care, e.g. to check for system updates, then you can re-enable VCService before starting up Vaio Care."

ORIGINAL POST 11/20/2009:

The VAIO Care application can be configured not to start automatically when the computer starts. If you disable the VAIO Care application using this procedure, you can still manually run the application and use the tools. These instructions are from the Sony support site.

Click the Start button and then click All Programs .
In the All Programs menu, click the Accessories folder and then click the System Tools folder.
In the System Tools folder, click Task Scheduler .
NOTE: If prompted for an administrator password or a User Account Control prompt is displayed, type the appropriate password or click Continue. [Digital QA Note: You can just right-click on Task Scheduler and select "Run as Administrator"]
In the Task Scheduler window, in the left pane, click Task Scheduler Library .
In the middle pane, click VAIO Care .
In the right pane, under Actions, click Disable.
7. Close the Task Scheduler window.